Time for action - creating your own texture

Let's create a .tif file within Photoshop and then save it within CryTIF using an appropriate compression method.

1. Start Photoshop.

   As all we want to do is simply create our first .tif file, a complex texture is not required here. You can import the example texture from the example assets.

2. Create a new image with the dimensions of 1024 X 1024.

3. Create a simple pattern or open the sample texture provided, which is stored under objects/wooden_props/textures/wood_prop_dif.tif.

4. Save this file as a CryTIF (.tif) file type. This format is made available upon the installation of the CryTIF plugin.

5. Save this texture under the game/textures/ folder and name it test_pattern.TIF.

   

   Once you select save, you will be presented with the CryTIF texture dialog box.

   The primary function of this dialog box is to add metadata to the texture, which can later be used by the resource compiler to compress the texture appropriately, for whatever platform it is being created for,...